Much Ado About Nanotech
It’s a quantum leap in materials science, revolutionizing manufacturing, food production and health care. Objects as small as a few dozen atoms across can be manipulated in size and shape, and...
View ArticleNanotechnology: New Risks But No Rules
Barely a decade after the industry got its start, nanotechnology is poised to sweep the globe. Touted as the next industrial revolution, potential uses for nanomaterials include highly efficient solar...
View ArticleThe Public Will Walk With Nanotech — For Now
Like belching smokestacks in the 1800s, new technology once was something to be uncritically welcomed; now the public often keeps it at arm’s length as a default position. Milk from an enhanced cow? No...
View ArticleToxicology of the Tiny
Already incorporated into consumer products ranging from baseball bats and clothing to sunscreens and toothpaste, engineered nanoparticles — ENPs — hold great promise in such areas as energy, pollution...
View Article‘Roach Motels’ for Bacteria
In the age-old battle between man and microbe, people have tried in countless ways to keep their surroundings germ-free, ranging from plain old scrubbing, heat sterilization and chemical disinfectants...
View ArticleResearchers & Discoveries: An Eye for Medicine
WHAT’S HIS DEAL? Developing microelectronic-equipped contact lenses that will be able to read vital signs, like a diabetic’s blood-sugar levels, by way of fluids on the eye. “A lot of things in the...
View ArticleWho is Bombing Mexico’s Nanotech Labs?
Policemen outside the Monterrey Institute of Technology after a letter bomb exploded there in August 2011. (A. FRANCO/AP/PRESS ASSOCIATION IMAGES) As if drug-war wracked Mexico didn’t already have...
View ArticlePlan Now for the Robot Apocalypse
You say he’s wistful. I say he’s plotting. (WALL-E image courtesy Disney) Ah, lovable robots, so helpful and kind and compliant, who wouldn’t fall in love with them? And that was the gist of a popular...
View ArticleViruses Inspire an Innovative Cloaking Device for Medicine
It’s not easy to send a micro-machine into a human body. Our immune systems quickly scramble to intercept and destroy microscopic invaders. If we’re going to use micro machines, aka nanostructures, to...
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